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August 21, 2020

Enter Air orders three Boeing 737 Max 8s

Granite Pireci August 21, 2020 18:59

Good news for Boeing: After a long time, an order has been received for the US aircraft manufacturer's crisis aircraft. The Polish charter airline Enter Air wants to have two Boeing 737 MAX 8s delivered. An option for two more aircraft has already been negotiated, Boeing announced. "Despite the current crisis, it is important to think about the future. For this reason, we have agreed to order additional 737-8 aircraft. Given the strict controls to which the 737 MAX is subjected, I am convinced that it will be the best aircraft in the world in the coming years," said Grzegorz Polaniecki, General Director and Board Member of Enter Air, which operates an all-Boeing 737 fleet. In addition, an agreement was reached on other issues. The Polish carrier suffered financial losses due to the 737 Max flight ban. These are now to be compensated by the aircraft manufacturer. However, it is unclear in what form this will take place and concrete details will not be made available to the public.

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Curious: Lauda Europe is courting fired Lauda employees

Jan Gruber August 21, 2020 18:51

The flight crew at the Lauda base in Stuttgart were dismissed a few weeks ago and are due to leave the company on October 31, 2020. There are no alternative employment options for the flight attendants and pilots. But now some Stuttgart Lauda employees are receiving letters from the Maltese company Lauda Europe Ltd. offering them a job in Düsseldorf. Almost at the same time, however, there was a wave of layoffs at the base in North Rhine-Westphalia. Numerous flight crew members have received the "blue letter". The others were sent a job offer for Lauda Europe Ltd. Approval for the change of employer is to be given by August 27, 2020. In Stuttgart, dismissed employees of the Austrian Laudamotion GmbH found the cover letter signed by Richard Higgins, one of the managing directors of Lauda Europe Ltd., to be a downright farce. The present letter points out that the conditions of the key points paper to which they had agreed will be adopted. But the Lauda employees concerned refused to give their consent, which ultimately led to the closure of the Stuttgart base. First they said that they were no longer needed and now jobs are being offered in Düsseldorf. A bit opaque and confusing, say laid-off flight attendants at the Stuttgart base. Incidentally, the job offer is also only valid until August 27, 2020 and can only be accepted with a pre-written text. Lauda Europe Ltd. is based in Birkirkara (Malta) and will in future operate the Airbus A320 fleet of the current Laudamotion GmbH, which is to be closed. Ryanair board member David O'Brien, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Maltese company, will act as Accountable Manager. Other managing directors are Richard Higgins, Angelo Buhagiar

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Tested: City of Vienna is pushing ahead with free corona tests

Jan Gruber August 21, 2020 18:49

With immediate effect, the city of Vienna is offering free corona tests for everyone who has returned from a trip. It does not matter whether you were in a risk area or a non-risk zone or within Austria. The tests are carried out in front of the Ernst Happel Stadium. The offer is aimed at people residing in Vienna. Officially, you must take your registration form, an ID document and your e-card with you. In practice, however, it turned out that the e-card and the verbal indication of your Vienna residential address were completely sufficient. Proof of the place of residence is also not required. You only have to verbally state the country in which you were staying. If you were traveling within Austria, you state the federal state, which should not be Vienna. There are no costs for the test and, if there is no waiting time, the matter is resolved within two to three minutes. By offering free tests for people with their main residence in Vienna, the City of Vienna intends to find significantly more asymptomatic cases and thus be able to contain the further spread of the virus. The City Hall writes that in the last few days around 3.948 returnees from Croatia have taken advantage of the free tests and so far 68 samples have been positive. All of them are said to have been asymptomatic. This means that those tested did not even notice that they were carrying Covid-19. How do you get a free corona test? According to the City of Vienna, which covers the costs, the offer is aimed at people with their main residence

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AUA decommissions “Spirit of Alpbach”

guest Author August 21, 2020 09:30

With the transfer of the OE-LGP to Canada last Wednesday and Thursday, the decommissioning of the Dash 8 fleet at AUA is making further progress. After being taken out of service due to Corona in March, the "Spirit of Alpbach" was initially stored in Bratislava from April to August before flying to St. John's via Glasgow, Reykjavik & Narsarsuaq. After its maiden flight in February 2000, it began its career in October 2001 (LN-WDZ) as the first DHC Dash 8-400 delivered to Wideroe. This was followed by N539DS (Horizon Air & Island Air), C-FSPV(Bombardier), D-ADHQ (Augsburg Airways), PH-DHQ (SAMCO Aircraft Maintenance) and finally the delivery in September 2014 as OE-LGP to Tyrolean Airways with the subsequent transfer of operations to Austrian Airlines. This article was written by Maximilian Gruber.

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